Taipei Times
Date: Oct 17, 2018
By: Bloomberg
Escalating tensions between the US and China over trade, the South China Sea and recent arms sales are pushing Taiwan back into the US foreign policy spotlight, attracting Beijing’s ire.
After a precedent-shattering telephone call with Donald Trump when he was president-elect, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has found an increasingly receptive audience in the US during the recent disputes.
She has been aided in that by the presence of long-standing allies in the White House, the US Department of State and the Pentagon, including US National Security Adviser John Bolton.
“The Republic of China has more high-level friends in this administration than it’s had for many, many years,” said Nicholas Eberstadt, who focuses on Asian security issues at the American Enterprise Institute. “It’s also apparent that the administration has an approach that is going to contest China on many different fronts.” [FULL STORY]